Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2007-07-29 02:10
Fred,
Buffet has used the same serial number for different models. That's why you can get multiple hits in the serial number list. In the case of the E13, I suspect (but do not know for sure for numbers this high) that there is actually a K-prefix. The serial number list ignores prefixes.
Harmony clarinets (alto and lower) also will appear as duplicates at the low end of the numbering system (no prefix). I have also come across bassoons on the current list and, maybe, oboes in the past. I don't know whether it has saxophones or not.
Roger,
In a thread on the Klarinet list, Francois Kloc mentioned that, when Buffet first started experimenting with the polycylindrical bore, they identified those instruments as the No1 or N01 line (Perhaps the � that turns up when we access the site is a font issue regarding a French vowel with some kind of accent mark.) This designation continues in the serial number list far beyond the point where instruments are clearly R13's so I think that may have been Buffet's first model designation for the R13, as well. Sib is of course Bb and Am�rique might indicate that the instrument was made for the U.S. (or, perhaps, North American, or even American) market(s)- perhaps 440 pitch.
The other two clarinets are interesting to me, both 1102 and both apparently nickle plated but they are named differently and assigned different dates. Is it an error in the list or duplicates in Buffet's records? Or are they two different clarinets, perhaps the first one designated for the "American" market(s) and the second for the European market. Do they have different prefixes? Stay tuned, maybe someone else will be able to fill in the blanks.
Best regards,
jnk
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